Athapaskan Linguistics
Subtitle: Current Perspectives on a Language Family
Contributors: Keren D. Rice (Editor)
Series: Trends in linguistics: State-of-the-art reports ; 15
Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
Published: November 1989
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 645
ISBN-13: 9780899252827
Subjects: Athapascan languages; Language; Native American Languages
First sentence: In this paper, a phonemic study is made of the Beaver dialect spoken on the Doig River reserve, north of Fort St John, northeast British Columbia.1
Table of contents: title: Eung-Do Cook & Keren Rice, Introduction, 1-61; title: Gillian Story, Problems of phonemic representation in Beaver, 63-98; title: Gillian Story, A report on the nature of Carrier pitch phenomena: with special reference to the verb prefix tonomechanics, 99-144; title: Eung-Do Cook, Chilcotin tone and verb paradigms, 145-198; title: Sharon Hargus, Sekani ghə: conjugation or mode prefix?, 199-227; title: Keren D. Rice, The phonology of Fort Nelson Slave stem tone: syntactic implications, 229-264; title: Keren D. Rice & Sharon Hargus, Conjugation and mode in Athapaskan languages: evidence for two positions, 265-315; title: Andrew Barss, Ken Kale, Ellavina Tsosie Perkins, & Margaret Speas, Aspects of logical form in Navajo, 317-334; title: Merton Sandoval & Eloise Jelinek, The bi-construction and pronominal arguments in Apachean, 335-377; title: Leslie Saxon, Lexical versus syntactic projection: the configurationality of Slave, 379-406; title: Mary Ann Willie, Why there is nothing missing in Navajo relative clauses, 407-437; title: Lynn McCreedy, Cohesion and discourse structure in three genres of Navajo discourse, 439-486; title: Gillian Story, The Athapaskan first duoplural subject prefix, 487-531; title: James Kari, Some linguistic insights into Dena’ina prehistory, 533-574; title: Jeff Leer, Directional systems in Athapaskan and Na-Dene, 575-622; title: Index, 623-645